Ottawa township, La Salle County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 2 (69% naturalized citizens)
| Ottawa township: | 2.0% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
62% of Ottawa township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 70% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 67% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 10310
- Northeast: 203
- Midwest: 685
- South: 474
- West: 207
Median price asked for vacant for-sale houses in 2000: $87,700
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 5.2%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.1% of all households
- Gay men: 0.1% of all households
People in group quarters in Ottawa township, Illinois:
- 80 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in religious group quarters
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 3,842
- One, attached: 98
- Two: 551
- 3 or 4: 405
- 5 to 9: 94
- 10 to 19: 98
- 20 to 49: 39
- 50 or more: 174
- Mobile homes: 202
Median worth of mobile homes: $24,300
Housing units in Ottawa township with a mortgage: 1,720 (145 second mortgage, 165 home equity loan, 15 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 1,300
- Construction (15%)
- Nonmetallic mineral products (7%)
- Public administration (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (5%)
- Machinery (4%)
- Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (4%)
- Motor vehicle and parts dealers (4%)
- Health care (16%)
- Accommodation and food services (12%)
- Educational services (10%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Department and other general merchandise stores (5%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (4%)
- Public administration (4%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (7%)
- Driver/sales workers and truck drivers (5%)
- Electrical equipment mechanics and other installation, maintenance, and repair occupations including supervisors (5%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (5%)
- Vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers (4%)
- Laborers and material movers, hand (4%)
- Other sales and related workers including supervisors (6%)
- Secretaries and administrative assistants (5%)
- Other office and administrative support workers including supervisors (5%)
- Retail sales workers except cashiers (4%)
- Preschool, kindergarten, elementary and middle school teachers (4%)
- Cooks and food preparation workers (4%)
- Cashiers (4%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Ottawa township:
- German (20.3%)
- Irish (18.9%)
- Italian (9.1%)
- Norwegian (7.0%)
- English (6.5%)
- United States or American (5.1%)
- Polish (4.8%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Mexico (34%)
- Germany (10%)
- Poland (8%)
- Portugal (6%)
- Austria (5%)
- Italy (5%)
- Philippines (5%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 4,275 (80%)
- Carpooled: 645 (12%)
- Bus or trolley bus: 20 (0%)
- Taxi: 8 (0%)
- Bicycle: 69 (1%)
- Walked: 133 (2%)
- Other means: 22 (0%)
- Worked at home: 163 (3%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Utility gas (92%)
- Electricity (6%)
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (1%)
- Other fuel (1%)
People in group quarters in Ottawa township, Illinois:
- 80 people in nursing homes
- 22 people in other noninstitutional group quarters
- 8 people in religious group quarters
94.7% of residents of Ottawa township speak English at home.
3.4% of residents speak Spanish at home (59% speak English very well, 33% speak English well, 8% speak English not well).
1.4% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (81% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 4% speak English not well).
0.4% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (27% speak English very well, 61% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.1% of residents speak other language at home (17% speak English very well, 83% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 12,026- In family households: 9,941 (2,365 male householders, 847 female householders)
2,405 spouses, 3,583 children (3,384 natural, 84 adopted, 115 stepchildren), 247 grandchildren, 107 brothers or sisters, 50 parents, 104 other relatives, 233 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 2,085 (771 male householders (640 living alone)), 1,074 female householders (979 living alone)), 240 nonrelatives
- In group quarters: 111 (82 institutionalized population)
Size of family households: 1,423 2-persons, 771 3-persons, 621 4-persons, 313 5-persons, 50 6-persons, 34 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 1,619 1-person, 201 2-persons, 25 3-persons,
1,866 married couples with children.
855 single-parent households (204 men, 651 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 108
| Here: | 7.5% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 99
| Here: | 13.8% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 12
| Here: | 4.4% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |